Simulating Mars in Austria

Space researchers are playing Mars on Earth in the giant ice caves at Austria's Dachstein mountain. Many more amazing photographs at the Austrian Space Forum's Dachstein Mars Simulation blog.

"Performing Mars" (BLDGBLOG)

"Icy caves setting for Mars mission tests" (Stuff)

• [AbdulAlhazred]

  I think you undercut the real headline: BUZZ LIGHTYEAR INVOLVED IN SPACE PROGRAM.

• [gullevek]

  So their headset moved on top of the cap. They should have taken a look to the oldschool apollo headset: http://airandspace.si.edu/images/collections/media/full/A19840157000CU1.JPG

• [petsounds]

  Enough Mars simulations already! Let’s just go there, dammit.

  But instead our tax money is spent making warplanes that cost $1B each, which have never flown combat missions because the military is too afraid to lose them.

• [Tim Drage]

  Simulating Mars in New York City :) 
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1dyoTIkEX0

• [Narmitaj]

  There’s a scene in Tintin “Explorers On The Moon” which looks a lot like the above image: spacesuit, cave, ice slope. This isn’t quite it, though it’s close.

  Edit to add: This page puts the above linked image in its context, though the ice slope is still a page or two further on. From 1954, btw.